manipulation
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This sounds like a blatant manipulation tactic—what do you make of it?
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026
William Hamish Yeates, 19, is the first person to be charged under a new national law which criminalises the manipulation of sexual images and carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
“Without that review and without apolitical, objective, honest brokers involved in the process, there is a much greater risk for intentional manipulation or inadvertent interference,” Keller said.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
As one of the early founders of social media, I spent more than 25 years building social networks without targeted ads or algorithmic manipulation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
In being man-made — by ingenious laboratory manipulation of the molecules, substituting atoms, altering their arrangement — they differ sharply from the simpler insecticides of prewar days.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing manipulation
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